# calebjacob/tooltipster

A jQuery tooltip plugin

Repository: https://github.com/calebjacob/tooltipster
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/tooltipster
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-04-06T11:03:43+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 57/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 76, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5144, "days_push": 149, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2734, forks 459 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:16.250789+00:00)

## What it is
Tooltipster is a flexible and extensible jQuery plugin for creating modern tooltips. It supports theming, animations, HTML content, touch devices, and a plugin architecture for extending behavior.

## Use cases
- add tooltips to html elements
- show rich html content on hover
- customize tooltip position and animation
- support tooltips on touch devices
- theme tooltips with css

## When to choose
- your project already uses jQuery
- you need highly customizable, extensible tooltips
- you need legacy browser support like IE6+

## When to avoid
- you are building a modern framework app without jQuery
- you need a dependency-free vanilla JS tooltip solution

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: maintenance
- function: ui-components, animation, templating
- domain: web-development, frontend
- platform: browser
- tags: jquery-plugin, tooltips, ui-library, javascript

## Member repositories
- calebjacob/tooltipster (main) score 57

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:16.250789+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:14:28.074184+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/calebjacob/tooltipster (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:16.250789+00:00, sha a7bea73af5a2)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.